Are we losing control over our life to machines?

That is up to you. You can or you can decide to not.

no

Nah, I can smash machines that annoy me, hence…control.

The stupid and the complacent maybe. The free-thinking won’t trust the machine just out of concern justifying skepticism, and the smart will know the wide variety of interesting failure modes machines have to even think of trusting machines implicitly.

I am pretty concerned about the new TVs which “hear” and record conversations in the room.

No. They’re a big part of our lives and have replaced a lot of things, but we have lost no control as ultimately, we run them and their programs. Machines require way too much human intervention and maintenance for us to lose control over them.

Unless you’re talking about terminators and shit. XD

@Symbeline Quite so; we bring them into our homes on our own free will. One may argue that we gave up control when machines became too complex to operate without at least reading the instruction manual, but I take that as humans mistakenly relinquishing control to forces they don’t understand in an attempt to pass blame for our shortcomings on the evils of technology or just intellectual laziness on our end rather than anything inherent about machines.
Machines are tools, and they only have whatever power over us that we allow them to have. Those that realize that are the ones using those tools instead of being used by them, and the ones making and fixing those tools.